Carrying a dispatch to the Seventh Cavalry, then patrolling south of Fort Sedgwick in Kansas, Second Lieutenant Lyman S. Kidder and a detail of ten other soldiers, together with a Sioux scout named Red Bead had been intercepted and killed in a short fight two weeks earlier in present-day Sherman County, Kansas. Their attackers were a small combined force of Cheyenne Dog Soldiers and Oglala Sioux. Their decomposing and mutilated remains were discovered by the Seventh on this day.. (By John Osborne)